Further Fridays by John Barth Essays, Lectures, and Other Nonfiction, 1984-1994

An acclaimed author offers a witty collection of essays inspired by his Friday muse--the nonfiction one--and covers a variety of topics, from postmodern fiction and chaos theory to memory, imagination, and the arabesque.

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Publishers Weekly

Novelist Barth has often been called a postmodernist, and in these witty essays, many of which have appeared in various periodicals, he explores the hallmarks of the style--formal playfulness, narrative self-consciousness, self-reflexiveness, ironic recycling of premodern devices--in a host of wr...